Quick Review - Ghost in the Shell
To begin, let's get this out of the way: I didn't watch the internationally beloved anime before seeing this movie. With that being said, I thought it was amazing. I loved the characters, loved the story, loved the sci-fi, simply thought it was awesome. Tonally, it's an action movie about self-discovery with some hardcore science fiction and dazzling visuals. It has interesting overtones about what it means to be human but it's not bogged down trying to be a huge, intellectual movie like, I assume, the anime was. Does this make it a worse movie? Depends entirely on expectations. If you're entering the theater expecting to have the same sensations that you had during your initial viewing of the anime, you're probably going to be disappointed. But if you're going in hoping to see a well-crafted action movie with a fascinating cyberpunk background then it'll be money well spent. When I say well-crafted, I mean that it's coherently edited (unl...